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Intel shares fell about 29% Friday after the chipmaker gave a weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter forecast, citing a PC slump and an explosion that shut its factory in Kiryat Gat, Israel. Reddit also fell about 29%. The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.84%, its…
✔ Sources: Reuters via KFGO, TheStreet, Calcalist
ExxonMobil reported a third-quarter profit of $15.4 billion, more than double a year earlier, and Chevron's profit nearly tripled, driven largely by refining. Fuel prices have stayed high since the U.S.-Iran war began; AAA's national average for regular…
✔ Sources: Scripps News via WTVR, CNN Wire via Westfair
Tens of thousands of students and workers marched in dozens of Italian cities Friday during a one-day nationwide strike called by the Unione Sindacale di Base union over wages, public services, living costs and military spending. Friday's protests were…
✔ Sources: Reuters via ThePrint, NBC News via Yahoo, CNN Wire via Westfair
Nearly 729,000 Minnesotans had voted in person or by mail as of Friday morning, according to Secretary of State data, topping the previous midterm early-voting record set in 2022. More than 938,000 voters had requested absentee ballots. Secretary of State…
✔ Sources: MPR News, Minnesota Star Tribune via Spokesman-Review
The Vatican confirmed Friday that Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago, submitted a mail-in ballot in the U.S. midterm elections. He is registered in New Lenox, Illinois, in Will County, and requested the ballot on Oct. 3. He is believed to be the first…
✔ Sources: Chicago Sun-Times, America Magazine, CNN Wire via Westfair
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